girls:
340 births since 1996
#5376 (6th percentile)
boys:
19.1k births since 1880
#834 (82nd percentile)
overall:
19.4k births since 1880
#1842 (76th percentile)
The name Pierce is the #1,842 most popular name of all time in the U.S. on a gender-neutral basis, with a total of 19,430 recorded births since 1880. This represents the 76.2% percentile of name popularity (more popular than 76.2% of all names). For boys, it ranks #834 (81.8% percentile) for all time with 19,090 births since 1880. For girls, it ranks #5,376 (5.9% percentile) for all time with 340 births since 1996.
Pierce has appeared in U.S. birth records since the beginning of our dataset in 1880 (since 1880 for boys and since 1996 for girls).
The name Pierce has been given almost exclusively to boys, with 98.3% of all recorded births being male.
For boys, Pierce reached its peak popularity in 2015, achieving the 52.8% percentile (ranked #428) with 317 births per million. The name was most common in 2016, with 319 births per million (ranked 52.4% percentile). Since reaching a high point around 2019, the popularity of this name for boys has been declining. Currently, Pierce ranks #478 for boys (47.6% percentile) with 293 births per million, which is 91.6% of its peak share of births.
For girls, Pierce reached its peak popularity in 2022, achieving the 2.8% percentile (ranked #931) with 18 births per million. The name was most common in 2022, with 18 births per million (ranked 2.8% percentile). Since reaching a low point around 2006, the popularity of this name for girls has been increasing. Currently, Pierce ranks #930 for girls (1.8% percentile) with 13 births per million, which is 70.5% of its peak share of births.
This chart shows the total number of births per million babies in each year for the name "Pierce".
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Our model has identified 2 different pronunciations for the name Pierce. Click the play button under each pronunciation to hear it spoken aloud.
Our model is 58.5% confident that Pierce is pronounced as pihrs, which has 1 syllables. The next most likely pronunciation is pears, at 41.5% confidence, with 1 syllables.
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For any given spelling, confidence scores across all identified pronunciations sum to 100%. However, these scores don't account for the possibility of valid pronunciations that our model hasn't identified.
The raw pronunciations shown (like P IH1 R S) use the ARPAbet phoneme system, a standardized way to represent English speech sounds. Each symbol represents a distinct sound in American English. Visit the ARPAbet Wikipedia page to learn more about these phonetic symbols.
Pronunciation audio is generated by an open source text to speech model that has been customized to adhere to pronunciations provided in ARPAbet format, but sometimes pronunciations that differ subtly will sound identical, particularly if the only difference is the level of emphasis on a syllable or a single vowel sound.
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